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The Women's High Security Unit in Lexington, KY
Publisher: Yale Journal of Law and LiberationYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 FallFormat: ArticleCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
This article centers on Baraldini v. Meese, a case that arose as a result of Congressional and public inquiry into the conditions at FCI Lexington HSU. The suit asserted that placement in the unit violated the prisoners' First Amedment rights of expression and association, that placement without prior hearing violated Fifth Amendment due process rights and that the conditions violated the women's Eight Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Letter/Phone Campaign to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit
Advertisement for 11/23/1987 phone/letter campaign to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Greetings from Alejandrina Torres, Susan Rosenberg, and Silvia Baraldini
Date: 10/1987Volume Number: OctoberFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Statements of solidarity, October 1987
Women's High Security Unit, Lexington KY Update Report to Amnesty International
Reproduction of update to the August 1988 Amnesty International Report on Lexington Control Unit.
United States of America: The High Security Unit, Lexington Federal Prison, Kentucky
Publisher: Amnesty InternationalDate: 8/1988Volume Number: AugustFormat: ExcerptCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction of summary published August 1988
Move Alejandrina, Susan, and Silvia to General Population
Publisher: Campaign for Amnesty and Human Rights for Political Prisoners in the USFormat: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction
There Are Women Political Prisoners in the US
Publisher: Out of Control: Committee to Shut Down Lexington Control UnitYear: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Information on Lexington Control Unit and the women imprisoned there.
United States of America: The High Security Unit, Lexington Federal Prison, Kentucky
Publisher: Amnesty InternationalDate: 8/1988Volume Number: AugustFormat: ReportCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction of full summary and report.
Brainwashing in America?: The Women of Lexington Prison
Publisher: The NationDate: 6/27/1988Volume Number: 27-JunFormat: ArticleCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction of article